Barnaby Joyce has expressed his anger at Malcolm Turnbull for leaving parliament after losing the prime ministership in August.
Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says Malcolm Turnbull “threw him under the bus” and has accused him of causing turmoil in the Liberal party.

Joyce, who was forced to resign this year after having an extramarital affair with an employee, said the former prime minister was poisoning the Coalition government before next year’s federal election.

“One of our big problems was Malcolm Turnbull ... the person who threw me under the bus,” he told Sky News on Friday.

“He just started delivering this – almost this poisonous, incendiary approach now – in the assistance of trying to deliver us to opposition.”